gcp-setup

gcp-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gemini-cli-extensions/sre. It costs 36 tokens per session (397 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Google Cloud environment check that compares the identities used by gcloud, Application Default Credentials, and kubectl. kubectl is the command-line tool for managing Kubernetes clusters.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a Google Cloud session, checking which accounts are active, fixing authentication differences, or connecting kubectl to a GKE cluster.
Why use it?
It helps find authentication mismatches before they cause confusing access or investigation problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sre-extension plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gemini-cli-extensions/sre/gcp-setup
Any agent
npx skills add gemini-cli-extensions/sre --skill gcp-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/sre

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sre-extension, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 397 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00036 $0.00397
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured 4d ago against content hash cab34e415003, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gcp-setup scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/gcp-whoami.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/gcp-setup/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

GCP Environment Setup

Use this skill to verify and harmonize your GCP identities at the start of an investigation or session.

Core Workflow

  1. Identity Verification: Run the bundled gcp-whoami.sh script to check all three major identities (gcloud, ADC, and kubectl).
  2. Harmonization: If identities mismatch, offer to fix them.
    • To fix gcloud: gcloud auth login [ACCOUNT]
    • To fix ADC: gcloud auth application-default login
    • To fix GKE/kubectl: gcloud container clusters get-credentials [CLUSTER] --region [REGION] --project [PROJECT]
  3. Next Step: Architecture Discovery(Optional): Once identities are verified and correct, check if the ./discover/{gcp-project|azure-subscription}/{PROJECT_ID_OR_NAME} directory exists. If it is missing or empty, and user asked transition to the gcp-architecture-discovery skill and explicitly instruct it to execute a full baseline discovery to sweep and map the entire infrastructure state.

Bundled Scripts

  • scripts/gcp-whoami.sh: Displays current identities for gcloud, ADC, and kubectl.

Safe Mode Support

If SAFE_MODE="enabled" is found in the environment or .env file, you MUST activate the safe-sre-investigator skill immediately after verifying the initial setup. This ensures all subsequent operations use read-only/non-mutating service accounts.

Note that the SAFE_MODE might impact kubectl authorization via RBAC.

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 31 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A cab34e415003

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gcp-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository gemini-cli-extensions/sre (83 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 397 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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